Background

Mr. Geoffrey Y. Yang, also known as Geoff, is a Managing Director and Founding Partner at Redpoint Ventures. Mr. Yang specializes in investments in consumer media and infrastructure. Prior to founding the firm, he served as a General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners since June 1989, and joined in 1987. Before this, Mr. Yang served as an Associate at First Century Partners and a marketing representative at IBM Corp. He was also in technical support at IBM. He ... served as the President at Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He has been a Director of Tidemark Systems, Inc. since January 18, + 2012, Franklin Resources, Inc. since March 15, 2011, and IAC Search & Media Inc., since February 1999. Mr. Yang serves as a Director of Victorious, Verbify, Inc., 2bkco Inc., Bluefin Labs, Inc., Vurify, Inc., Electric Imp, Homejoy, Octopus, Inc., Machinima, Inc., Wochit Inc., Findery, Scribd, Inc., Pinwheel, reflect.com, Branchout, TasteMade, Formspring, Gaia Online and Oodle. Previously, he served as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Yang was a Director in Agile Networks, Applied Digital Access Inc., Centillion, Collabra, Crescendo, Golfweb, Netcore Systems, Gravity, Netlink, Promatory Systems, Rapid City, Shasta Networks, Synernetics, and Whitetree. He served as a Director of MMC Networks, Inc., Excite, Inc., BroadBand Sports, Inc., and BigBand Networks, Inc. Mr. Yang served as a Director at Clicker Media Inc., LivePlanet, Inc., Western Association of Venture Capitalists, Myspace LLC, M2Z Networks, Inc., Azul Systems, Inc., Alidian Networks, Inc., Tahoe Networks, JotSpot, Inc., Caymas Systems, Inc., SkyStream Networks Inc, Nortel Networks Broadband Access Inc., Calix Networks, Inc., Atmosphere Networks, Inc., Efficient Frontier, Inc., Fusient Media Ventures, Calix Inc., TiMetra Inc., Procket Networks, Inc., WaveSpan Corporation, and Whistle Communications Corporation. He was a Director of The Fanfare Group, Inc. Mr. Yang served as an Independent Director of TiVo Inc. and Turnstone Systems Inc. He was also the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a B.S.E. in Information Systems Engineering and Management Systems, and a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University.

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